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The AI labs have somewhat the same problem that publishers have. Essentially their asset is a static piece of IP: a huge file full of numbers. They’re like a publisher only letting you read their book through some scuzzy Flash reader UI because they have to protect that file at all costs. At some point the weights get out/get reproduced and then what they have a is bunch of sunk costs.

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I've never really used spaces, I remember them being introduced but they didn't really take for me.

Anyway to see what all the fuss is about I've installed Gridlion but… how can I move an app to another space?

I was expecting to be able use to a keystroke to "flick" an app up/down/left/right onto another space.

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2 ay öncediscuss

What would be required for you to see it as a policy?

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When you use the word “allowed” it becomes a policy.

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I bow to you 7 times

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In fact now I think about it my claim to fame used to be that Github used one of my Rails plugins. I had written a really simple versioning system (Rails 2 I think) that I used for my blog and they used it, IIRC, for versioning wiki pages.

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2 ay öncediscuss

Surprised to find I am #79.

I think that was down to being in a particular IRC channel when CW & co. were building it.

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3 ay öncediscuss

No VORP calculations in US tech I see.

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My Dad and I are doing a generative art experiment with his HP-7475A pen plotter.

I wrote an application called Axo which is a graph-based programming tool that outputs paths to be converted into HP-GL, SVG, or G-Code (we've used this for engraving with a laser cutter). Axo is an homage to Reaktor, Patternodes, ArtMatic & Max, all applications I have enjoyed using.

Here's a gallery of some of the bits I am happiest with so far: https://axo.mattmower.com/projects/mausart/gallery

At some point I want to pair the virtual image with a picture of the real-life plot. Some of the plots look great on nice paper.

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4 ay öncediscuss

It’s a problem that the models are moving faster than they can be usefully tested. GPT-4.1/4o/o-1 are not SOTA for some time and they don’t even seem to have the Anthropic models as part of their study.

Even if their conclusions were valid at the time they did the work, it says frustratingly little about it today.

We’re testing implementations, not principles.

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5 ay öncediscuss

But we’ve been here before. The agile movement originated as a response to the multifarious problems of big design up front.

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6 ay öncediscuss

Pretty much. Xcode was quirky but it still is. But the frameworks were well documented and 1 Cocoa book could get you a long way. I loved building Obj-C/Cocoa apps back then.

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7 ay öncediscuss

My understanding that attempts to defeat fingerprinting are often useless because they can tend to make you more, rather than less, unique.

So instead I wonder if we could build an open database of “identities” that our browsers could clone.

That is your browser deliberately reports the whatever is currently the most popular of a set of general identities.

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8 ay öncediscuss

After implementing a behaviour tree library and realising the power of select & sequence I found myself wondering why they aren’t used more widely.

I’ve never done anything in crypto but watched in horror as people created immutable contracts with essentially Javascript programs. Surely it would be much easier to reason about/verify scripts written as a behaviour tree with a library of queries and actions. Even being able to limit the scope of modifications would be a win.

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8 ay öncediscuss

Okay that makes a kind of sense in the case stated but even there seems open to creative abuse in cases where those lines are not wholly independent. Thanks for the information.

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Modulo I haven’t tried it yet it’s been an irritant that SIP broke tracing so this is a welcome development, thank you.

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8 ay öncediscuss

I'm not in the US so I've no dog in this race only curiousity.

I can understand allowing a governor to change the text of a bill. But I cannot understand allowing them to sign those changes into law. It seems like that would mean they could creatively reverse the meaning of any bill.

It seems like a governor should be able to approve the text as written, or change it and send it back.

What am I missing?

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8 ay öncediscuss

I'd forgotten all about it but SubEthaEdit was such an amazing tech when we were using to collaborate internationally back in about '04. It went off my radar but I am glad to see its still available as a free app.

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8 ay öncediscuss

I'd argue that privatising telecomms has been a win. I think because it's quite open to competition (even if there has been a good deal of consolidation).

The challenge with so many UK privatisations is that the idea of real alternatives/competition ranges from laughable to extremely laughable.

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8 ay öncediscuss

I don't think that's what he's saying precisely.

I think what he is saying that native platform apps get delegated to different teams and coordinating among those teams becomes an additional cost. You don't want each team going off and doing their own thing.

Your 'answer' is "use a cross-platform GUI toolkit" but that has its own challenges. Not least that you typically build a native app because it delivers a native experience that users expect.

In general (and I accept there may be counter-examples) cross-platform tools fail to do this.

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